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564. Sandwich Islands Goose. Add: Now practically

extinct. Hachisuka (p. 60) says that H. W. Henslow,

writing in 1902, says that formerly they were frequently

domesticated in the islands and sometimes bred in captivity.


Add : 563 aa. Bernacle x Lesser White-fronted Goose.

This cross has been reared at Woburn (Tavistock in lit.,

8th January , 1927), and teste Tavistock (in lit., Ylth October ,

1932) there was a hybrid Bernacle x Chinese Goose in

Battersea Park in 1931.


Add: 564. Sandwich Islands Goose, a, Sandwich


Islands Goose x Chinese Goose. Hachisuka (p. 59)

says that he saw in the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, a mounted

specimen of this cross, which was labelled “ bred under

captive conditions ”.


565. Upland Goose. Add : They have also been bred in

America, teste Crandall’s 1927 List.


565. 6, Upland x Egyptian Goose. Add : see also L’Oiseau,

1927, 280.


574. Bed-billed Tree-duck. Delete As 573 and read:

Commandante Duliguier reared two young under a Rhode

Island Bed hen in France in 1927 ; see L’Oiseau, 1928, 48.

Probably a first success, though the species has a place in

Page’s book.


575. Egyptian Goose. To the list of male parents in the

hybrid entry , add : Sheldrake.


576. Shelduck. Add : c, Sheldrake x Egyptian Goose.

Mr. R. H. Haslam in a letter to the Times, 21 st May, 1929,

writes that he has hatched four young birds of this cross.

In reply to my inquiry as to what happened, he writes

(30^ September, 1930) that the young were reared by the

mother and reached maturity, but being unpinioned flew

away in August.


Add: 576. i, White-headed Shelduck ( Radjah radjah

(Garnot) ). a, “ Rajah X Ruddy Shelduck Delacour

in A.M., 1932, 8, says that one was reared at Cleres which

resembled the father.



